It’s a sad day for Olly fans – Ian Holloway’s been sacked as Millwall manager.
But if there’s one thing guaranteed to put a smile on any football fan’s face, it’s a collection of the greatest Ollyisms. So here we go…
1. “Apparently it’s my fault that the Titanic sank.” – On criticism he received as Plymouth boss.
2. “You wait ’til I get home, I’m going to tell my turkeys: ‘Don’t worry, it ain’t Christmas. We’re moving it. It’s alright, you’ve got some respite. I’ve had a word with Fifa and we’re going to move Christmas.’” – On the prospect of a winter World Cup.
3. “I love Blackpool. We’re very similar. We both look better in the dark.”
4. “If you’re a burglar, it’s no good poncing about outside somebody’s house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just get in there, burgle them and come out. I don’t advocate that obviously, it’s just an analogy.”
5. “In the first-half we were like the Dog and Duck, in the second-half we were like Real Madrid. We can’t go on like that. At full-time I was at them like an irritated Jack Russell.”
6. “I think it’s his curly hair. It’s the way it waves round his neck.” – On what makes Harry Redknapp a good manager.
7. “There was a spell in the second half when I took my heart off my sleeve and put it in my mouth.”
8. “He’s six-foot something, fit as a flea, good-looking – he’s got to have something wrong with him. Hopefully he’s hung like a hamster – that would make us all feel better.” – on Cristiano Ronaldo.
9. “I couldn’t be more chuffed if I were a badger at the start of the mating season.â€Â
10. “I am a football manager. I can’t see into the future. Last year I thought I was going to Cornwall on my holidays but I ended up going to Lyme Regis.”
11. “I love the game, but I can’t stand the business because the business is… rubbish. I nearly said bullshit there.”
12. “I don’t see the problem with footballers taking their shirts off after scoring a goal. They enjoy it and the young ladies enjoy it, too. Of course they’d have to go and watch another game because my lads are ugly as sin.â€
13. “I couldn’t manage anything at the moment apart from my chickens. And to be fair, they just run around the bloody garden and I can’t catch them anyway.”
14. “To me tweeting was something that birds did. I don’t understand what it is.”
15. “I know he was a good player but he ain’t very good at what he does. I think he’s useless. And you can quote me on that.” – On Michel Platini
16. “We haven’t got undersoil heating. We’ve got something out there that looks like something from a fairground. I waited for 10 minutes to get a hotdog from it but unfortunately it’s the generator to blow some hot air on it.”
17. “It’s been crazy but hopefully we can bring some sanity to it. It seems mad that I’m saying that, doesn’t it?”
Source: SNAPPA
